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Inside Life Outside*

• 1988 ----- color ----- 57 min ----- vhs
• Midway between Wall Street and Rockefeller Center on New York's Lower East Side, a group of homeless people are living in a cluster of shacks in the middle of an empty lot. They call it Shantytown. Made over two and a half years and shot in cinema verite style, it shows homeless people as whole people, with all the complexity, subtlety and integrity that every human being possesses. It offers no easy answers. But its complex treatment of the issues of poverty, homelessness, child abuse, drug abuse and alcoholism provides a look at the growing underside of American society. (Cine Golden Eagle Award) (Restricted to use by institutions of Higher Education in Washington state only)
• Topics: (Community Life, Social Work: Human/Community Services, Sociology)

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